X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:03:55 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6 Message-ID: <20100819060355.GB6960@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100818191340.GB11340@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100818191906.GD22698@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818192238.GA27567@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818193446.GC11340@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100818193940.GA4358@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818195546.GF11340@calimero.vinschen.de> <4C6C3B15.2000605@redhat.com> <20100818201921.GI11340@calimero.vinschen.de> <4C6C7DED.40509@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6C7DED.40509@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >The other crazy idea would be to override the Win32 file and path >functions and handle the notion of a current directory entirely within >Cygwin for both Win32 and Cygwin functions, but IIRC, playing games with >Windows API functions was explicitly rejected a while ago. Right. I suggested that in cygwin-developers but neither Corinna nor I could really convince ourselves that it was a good idea. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple